![]() A lot of times when I go shopping and things like that, people recognize me, and they come up and hug me or say, "Thank you." I never know when it’s going to happen. ![]() If they choose to leave me inappropriate comments, I will never reply to it. As you build up the audience, you will realize that you have to deal with everyone and you have to be OK with it. At least not the majority of us.ĭo you read the YouTube comments? Do people ever leave you dirty comments or anything? But sexual arousal is never an intent of the ASMR creators. If it would be arousing, I don’t think people would fall asleep that fast. It all becomes sort of a ritual for nighttime. You’re being treated very nicely and you’re comforted and somebody wishes you good night. A lot of people compare it to the act of grooming in the animal kingdom, for example, when groom each other. It’s more of a comforting, an intimacy with another human being. On the other hand, just to have an open mind, ASMR is definitely something that brings up sensations in you, so it is a little bit sensual in a way, but not in an erotic way. If you experience the actual sensation, you will recognize that it’s never arousing. Some people think ASMR is sexual or fetishistic. ![]() ![]() We both experience ASMR, and we always play with each other’s hair and with each other’s forearms, and whisper to each other. I actually met my boyfriend, who I’ve been with for three years, in the community as well. There is such a thing as an immunity in ASMR, when you watch too much of one person. There’s really no competition in the ASMR world because we want you to experience other people, because you will get different sensations from everyone. What kind of relationships have you made through the ASMR community?Ī lot of the creators are my best friends. Hopefully, I could help out a few people. So I felt like I could try and do it myself. I don’t want to say it cured me, but it did help me as much as anybody else could. What prompted you to start making your own videos? And it would calm me down like nothing else. I would go to a restroom if I felt like my anxiety was building up. I started watching videos on a daily basis. I clicked it and heard a woman whispering, and it was the most pleasant feeling I’ve ever experienced. One day, I saw a suggested video on the side with "whisper" in. So I turned to YouTube, and I was watching a lot of massage and meditation videos. I was depressed and negative, and I was searching for ways to give myself some kind of therapy to get out of that bubble of negativity. Back in 2009, I was going through a divorce. I understand you stumbled upon ASMR through YouTube. spoke to the 28-year-old Russian expat about being the star of this strange and often-misunderstood pocket of the Internet. The video has been viewed nearly 10.9 million times since Maria posted it from her home in September 2012. "I’m hoping that this might help you relax." "I’m hoping you’re enjoying this," she says slowly, softly. In the most popular of her more than 200 videos, Maria brushes her hair, "massages" your temples (by reaching out to the camera), and strokes your cheek with a feather, all the while speaking to you in a hushed tone. It’s not meant to be sexual, just relaxing. Maria, who has asked that her surname be withheld for privacy reasons, is part of the ASMR community, meaning she uses certain tactile and auditory stimuli - the crinkling of a piece of paper, for example - to elicit a tingling sensation, or autonomous sensory meridian response, in her viewers. ![]() Who is this woman breathing heavily into a microphone? Why is she tapping her finger slowly against the hard wood of a brush handle? But it’s not what you think. If you came across a video by Maria, known to her more than 430,000 subscribers as GentleWhispering, without real knowledge of what she was doing, you might assume you’d entered a fetishistic YouTube lair. ![]()
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